释义 |
ˌoverˈcolour, v.|-kʌlə(r)| [over- 27.] trans. To colour too highly (usually fig.); to represent too strongly or in an exaggerated way. So ˌover-ˈcolouring vbl. n.
1823Scott Romance (1874) 81 To overcolour the importance and respectability of the minstrel tribe. 1843Prescott Mexico (1850) I. 325 It was this, too, which..led him into gross exaggeration and over-colouring in his statements. 1858J. B. Norton Topics 16 He has no motive for over⁓colouring or distorting facts. |